On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Lennart Poettering<lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Sun, 28.06.09 17:44, Anil Seth (seth.anil at gmail.com) wrote: > >> > When you switch vt, console kit notices this and will change the ACL >> > literally as you switch vt, thus giving you permission again. You can test >> > this easily by doing the following in a perminal in the X session: sleep 5; >> > paplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav >> > >> The console kit changing permissions is very useful. My wife and I are >> often logged in together and now a common sound server is not an >> irritant any more. >> >> It is clear now that switching to tty7 makes ConsoleKit remove the >> permissions to the audio even though it is owned by the correct user. >> >> crw--w----. 1 anil anil 4, 7 2009-06-28 17:27 /dev/tty7 >> >> I suppose it looks like a distribution issue and I should raise it in Fedora. > > Most likely your startx session is not registered properly in > ck. Check with "ck-list-sessions" if that sessoin shows up properly > and assigned to the correct user and vt. Only then the ACL stuff will > work correctly. > > Also make sure you don't run PA as root. > > If you don't want to use HAL's ACL feature consider making yourself a > member of the "audio" group. > Making the user a part of the audio group does not help. It would appear that tty7 is not associated with any session. I have raised it as a bug in ck for fedora 11. Thanks and regards Anil
